1. don't do outsourcing if you under a pressure to make the date. Most likely you will not make the date
2. understand that outsourcing team is not part of yours. they have different work culture.
3. understand that their deliverables might not be exactly what you expect and plan enough time to put it in order
4. employ outsourcing when you need something to be done but you have relatively enough time
5. employ outsourcing if you want to put your key (internal) resource on the key area of your product while slowly moving towards strategic goal with the help of outside team.
6. make outsourced task as self contained as possible. the more integration requirement and inter-team communications you have the better chance for failure.
I have been in this area for ~7 year and we use outsourcing in CloudBerry Lab too. We employ some freelancers and their initial work is ... complete crap. But we realize at the beginning what we will get and we're slowly improving. At the end we are all happy.
Hope some of our readers will find it useful
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3 comments:
Your article is informative and provides food for thought. Outsourcing is indeed a great idea and it makes a lot of business sense. And with the power of the Internet, it works perfectly well. Nevertheless, if your requirements are not managed well, even the best software team will fail to give you what you want.
Julienne
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Outsourcing your business overseas can bring much value to your business in terms of cost savings and additional revenue realized. Most of our information focuses on how to bring value to your organization, but in this post we thought it would be useful to present you with a few of the problems that can stand in your way to achieving the desired success.
Outsourcing is definitely a great way to operate and do business. However, it is important to point out that it is not for everyone. There are several factors one might consider before outsourcing a project, system or service. It is important that one should determine the cost and benefit effects of outsourcing. Although in the long run, I think the positives of outsourcing often outweigh the negatives.
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